if then (else) expressions
“if” expressions are now supported in DWScript SVN, those were introduced to Pascal by Oxygene a couple years back, and are Pascal’s verbose version of the C ternary operator (?:).
Thirteen features of DWScript
After having survived the Mayan apocalypse and just before the year ends, and the US economy falls from the fiscal cliff into the pit of recession, here is a quick look at thirteen features of DWScript, so you don’t come into 2013 unaware 🙂
DWScript and the Gabelou
The Gabelou is now available in the DWScript SVN, this is a set of classes and rules that aims to watch over coding styles.
Currently only a handful of naming rules are declared, with more coming.
You can run the Gabelou by adding the dwsGabelou unit to your uses, then create an instance, add custom rules or use built-in ones (f.i. those in dwsGabelouStdRules), compile a script program as usual, then invoke Gabelou on the compiled program:
DWScript pre-Apocalypse news
With the end of the world in a few days, it’s time to flush the what’s new log for DWScript.
There are two major items that will be discussed in future posts:
- the JSON connector, which gives direct, JS-like access to JSON-based data objects
- the Gabelou, which aims to become to DWScripot what StyleCop is to C#.
Also the old Indy-based webserver demo is being replaced by one based on Synopse high-performance http server classes.
Desktop HTML5 apps game changer? node-webkit
Recently stumbled upon node-webkit, an open-source from Intel Open Source Technology Center, which is deliciously “simple”: combine a standalone webkit (Chromium) build and node.js into a runtime.
Webkit/Chromium brings a high-performance HTML5 environment with JavaScript JITting compiler, WebGL, Audio, hardware accelerated Canvas, camera access, etc.